Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Support for this hypothesis comes from an analysis of male peeking rates during the change in plumage which many ducks undergo at the end of the breeding season . |
| 2 | A granite memorial to these Groups stands at the end of the former main runway . |
| 3 | Will the period be extended , or will the trade union be almost forced to concede what the employers want at the end of 16 months ? |
| 4 | The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but . |
| 5 | More detailed information about body language can be found in several books listed at the end . |
| 6 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 7 | Finally , the additional time taken to read words occurring at the end of clauses and sentences might reflect the time taken to carry out syntactic processing of that particular clause or sentence . |
| 8 | The Committee of Directors of Polytechnics decided at the end of 1982 to discuss plans to deal with applications for the 1985 intake , involving the appointment of staff and the compilation of application forms and a polytechnic equivalent of the UCCA booklet . |
| 9 | It was n't the cars there , it was the cars turning at the end of the road |
| 10 | They arrived on Christmas Eve 1924 , proving that high-quality electrical test recordings existed at the end of 1924 , although it is not known that any of these survive today . |
| 11 | This may suit some since , as the authors note at the end of their hard-hitting proposals , ‘ none of these suggestions offers easy solutions ’ . |
| 12 | Kids gather at the end of each day , hoping Ian will sign their autograph books and cricket bats . |
| 13 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 14 | Not that one would get that impression from the announcement made by WTA after the formal statement by the WIPTC that the constitution of the Council would remain unchanged , at least until current contracts expire at the end of 1994 . |
| 15 | They are the only members of the first-team squad whose contracts expire at the end of the season . |
| 16 | Five of those minutes came at the end of the first half , allowing Hein to score the first of his morale-boosting tries for Oxford in the right corner . |
| 17 | A private collection of weapons confiscated from Manchester Scuttlers included ‘ old cutlasses , pokers , pieces of strap having iron bolts affixed to the end , the tops of stone ‘ pop ’ ’ bottles fastened at the end of a piece of string and used for whirling round the head , specially made pieces of iron … knives , and loaded sticks ' . |
| 18 | ‘ A decision was needed today to avoid a legal vacuum when quotas expire at the end of the month , ’ an EC spokesman said . |
| 19 | We were talking about budget decisions and after the microphones closed at the end of the programme they commented about that home in Blenheim Road in Kidlington , and to them it was n't healthy . |
| 20 | ( A list of texts appears at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 21 | When the current round of licences expires at the end of 1992 , new licence-holders will be ( more or less ) the firms that have paid most for them . |
| 22 | The Contributions Agency has issued a proposal suggesting that self-employed and non-employed National Insurance contributors pay their fees via bills issued at the end of each quarter . |
| 23 | Deliveries start at the end of this year . |
| 24 | This criticism leaves open the possibility of a different sort of causal theory , on the lines suggested at the end of 2.2 . |
| 25 | The taxman ought to require companies to reveal at the end of each tax year how much each company car insured for private use has cost them in depreciation , insurance , servicing and fuel . |
| 26 | Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel . |
| 27 | Those Jimbos finish at the end of this month do n't they ? |
| 28 | The sample libraries listed at the end are basically of three kinds . |
| 29 | Bella was spreading plants and flowers out on a sheet of newspaper to dry : rose petals gathered at the end of the summer , stock and rosemary and lemon verbena , pinks and thyme and honeysuckle , bay leaves and mint . |
| 30 | The first sentence in each of the above extracts occurs at the end of the paragraph immediately before the one we are examining . |